Blogs

Regular penetration testing forms an essential part of a positive Cyber Security strategy and helps to identify and eliminate gaps in your organisation’s defences by attempting to breach some or all of the target system’s security, using the same tools…Read more

What is Amazon Alexa? Cue – Wikipedia definition!  Amazon Alexa, also known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant AI technology developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of…Read more

Cyber Essentials is a government backed scheme and is an important part of the NCSC’s mission to “make the UK one of the safest places to live and do business on-line.”  It is designed to be a first step to…Read more

If you’re not sure what it is………AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. The event will feature keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to more than 2,500 technical sessions,…Read more

We’re not going to get into the debate on what is DevOps, what is DevSecOps, which term is correct, is it a culture or not blah blah blah – we’re just going to focus on the benefits of using a…Read more

Cyber Security Specialists are delighted to be supporting the Future Savings Charity Event at the end of this month in Manchester. The event is to celebrate creativity, skateboarding, music and wellbeing, bringing people together to raise funds for 42nd Street…Read more

Serverless can be daunting to some Security Pro’s as it’s a complete shift from the ‘norm’, the norm in AWS being running Windows and Linux server Operating systems on EC2 instances, maybe with a few Docker containers orchestrated with ECS…Read more

When designing and implementing secure solutions, as Security people we always try to ensure that any security components implemented are justifiable, proportionate and help to mitigate an identified risk.  An example of this is: Identified Risk – The Web Application…Read more